Hi Charles,
The following course challenge came into my
email box, and I
wanted to make certain you also received a copy. Did you get a copy sent
to you as well?
Thanks,
Mary Jo
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Subject: From Web: Course Challenge 2004F BISC638
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 16:49:09 -0500 (EST)
From: s-admin@lobster.mis.udel.edu
Reply-To: ilvento@UDel.Edu
Term:
2004F
Course ID: BISC638
Course Title: BIOLOGICAL STATISTICS
Name:
Thomas W Ilvento
Email: ilvento@udel.edu
Dept:
Food and Resource Economics
Phone:
831-6773
Justification for Challenge:
We sought contact with Dr McDonald over a year ago
to discuss this course, which at the time was
offered as an experimental course. We were
seeking a way to collaborate at that time. We have
not been contacted since, and certainly not as
part of this proposal process. This course
directly affects our STAT 608 course, which an
applied statistics course for graduate students.
Since the emergence of BISC 638, Biological
Statistics, our enrollment in STAT 608 has gone
down substantially. STAT 608 was traditionally
for those in the biological sciences in the
Arts and Sciences. STAT 608 is very much an
applied course, not theoretical as stated in this
proposal. We have concerns about the breadth of
this course in terms of the number of topics in
one semester to give graduate student sufficient
knowledge and understanding to apply these
techniques in a thesis. We have added STAT 609
which is a follow-up to this course to give
students the depth and breadth to apply these
skills to a thesis. We are prepared to discuss
details of our concerns and stand ready to discuss
possible remedies.